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...Dora Akunyili and her family were driving down a rural road in Nigeria three years ago when snipers opened fire on her car. "The back windscreen was shattered," she says. "A bullet pierced through my head scarf and grazed my scalp." Akunyili had been targeted by a drug gang--but not the kind that sells heroin or cocaine. These drug dealers traffic in counterfeit medicine--ineffective at best, deadly at worst--and as director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Akunyili's job aims to put them out of business...
...with 25% among Palestinians in general, and 81% of its residents live in poverty. Israel demolished thousands of homes near the border to prevent militants from digging tunnels beneath them that could be used to smuggle weapons into Gaza. The meager refugee-camp blocks facing the border are a bullet-pocked mess of twisted rebar and shattered concrete...
...devout Evangelical whom he trusts completely. Fight him and lose, and they prove how powerless they are to affect much of anything that counts; swallow hard and fall in line, and what good is their access anyway? By contrast, the Democrats--looking smug and convinced they have dodged a bullet with Miers' selection--actually had it easy. Senate minority leader Harry Reid boasted that he had recommended Miers in his chats with Bush, while most Dems just stayed quiet, letting the Republicans eat their young...
...although a more modest $5 billion) and plans to split off 16% of the cable division. What's more, Parsons has the Time Warner board in his corner. He has presented spin-off scenarios and, according to a Time Warner insider, "the board has concluded there's no magic bullet...
Backup quarterback Richard Irvin did little more than pad Lehigh’s defensive stats, as the sophomore transfer tossed another pair of interceptions on consecutive drives in the fourth quarter. The first was a glaring over-the-middle bullet to defensive back Julian Austin at the Harvard 33-yard line on just the second play of the Crimson’s drive. Irvin’s second pick came in the endzone after a late fourth-quarter drive...